Steve Wood used his keyboard to write : > Martin Phillips wrote: >> We may pass along the Thames this summer. Are there any bizarre rules >> imposed by the EA? I vaguely remember hearing that boats need a unique >> name and it has to be front and back, or somthing like that. Will the BW >> registration do in lieu, painted on the rear sides and on the plates in >> the front windows? Anything else, other than parting with a wad of >> notes? Navigation lights? > I did the Thames last summer with the boat in red oxide with no name or > BW number painted anywhere and no navigation lights, but the EA didn't > seem to mind. As I recall the number on the licence which you stick in > your window is the "name" as far as they are concerned. > The sticky number plate use to be very sticky, and after a 2 weeks on the paint work required a blow lamp to remove it. I have ours in the port-holes on the inside held with a small piece of "sticky backed plastic" The plates are longer than the port holes so I have just folded them back, had no problems at all, just as long as the lock keeper can see them and they are much more switched on to narrowboats now for length and width. 57 narrow boat for 14 days costs £106
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